Rating agencies issued a blizzard of news releases during the week of April 23 announcing downgrades and other rating actions on mortgage-backed and mortgage-related securities, many of them linked to subprime mortgage loans.The releases resulted in more than 30 news items on well over 300 downgrades of MBS, asset-backed securities supported by home equity loans, and collateralized debt obligations containing residential and commercial MBS. This was a record number of downgrade-related news items for this publication in a single week.
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